2 I would lead thee and bring thee into my mother's house who would instruct me I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine of the juice of my pomegranate

3 His left hand should be under my head and his right hand should embrace me

4 I charge you O daughters of Jerusalem that ye stir not up nor awake my love until he please

5 Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness leaning upon her beloved I raised thee up under the apple tree there thy mother brought thee forth there she brought thee forth that bare thee

6 Set me as a seal upon thine heart as a seal upon thine arm for love is strong as death jealousy is cruel as the grave the coals thereof are coals of fire which hath a most vehement flame

7 Many waters cannot quench love neither can the floods drown it if a man would give all the substance of his house for love it would utterly be contemned

8 We have a little sister and she hath no breasts what shall we do for our sister in the day when she shall be spoken for

9 If she be a wall we will build upon her a palace of silver and if she be a door we will inclose her with boards of cedar

10 I am a wall and my breasts like towers then was I in his eyes as one that found favour

11 Solomon had a vineyard at Baalhamon he let out the vineyard unto keepers every one for the fruit thereof was to bring a thousand pieces of silver

12 My vineyard which is mine is before me thou O Solomon must have a thousand and those that keep the fruit thereof two hundred

13 Thou that dwellest in the gardens the companions hearken to thy voice cause me to hear it

14 Make haste my beloved and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices